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If Genji = Ronove and Nanjo = Gaap, then you can see some action being taken.
Otherwise they do absolutely nothing, which would be really hard for them to do considering how suspicious they are.

I'm find the association between Nanjo and Gaap highly dubious - not even because Gaap is so obviously shown as female, but because she talks to Beatrice about dresses and is so highly impressed with George to the point of thinly covered desire. And emotional sentiments in magic scenes do seem to be the one properly true things in them.

Can you imagine Nanjo doing that? I can, but it looks so out of tune with everything that I have to reject it.

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Ronove actually puts Genji to sleep. That Genji doesn't wake up from this one is not necessarily Ronove's doing.

It looked like he died to me. I don't think he was drugged so did Ronove use some sort of "martial arts spy move" where he squeezes your neck and you fall unconscious?

EDIT: Actually Eva mentions a martial arts move where she can kick you in the head in the right way and knock you out. (I think she said this to Rudolf) This is before she got off the boat. Moving on...

no motive has ever been established for burning the older Kinzo's corpse in that episode.

Ah, I should probably elaborate on this. Supposing the body belongs to Kinzo, then you can enumerate all of the motives we have available and determine that they don't actually make sense given the situation. On the other hand, if the body belongs to Kanon, you can make the theory that it was burned to deliberately give the impression that his corpse was missing, thereby making him a prime suspect for the murders.Something like this has already happened before in EP2.

Because it explains why Kanon disappeared in that episode and also demonstrates that he has polydactyly, which gives Kinzo a reason to specifically adopt him and possibly choose him as an heir. Furthermore, it evades the problem that no motive has ever been established for burning the older Kinzo's corpse in that episode.

Kanon disappears in various episodes so you really don't solve the issue by explaining it in a single one. And what's so strange about Kanon disappearing? The island is huge, Battler can't possibly search every corner. Plus considering you accept the fact that Kinzo's corpse is found at least in Ep1, you'd still have a missing body in EP4, because Kinzo's body must be there somewhere.

then using the word "demonstrate" was really out of place.

lastly, the reason why Kinzo's corpse has always been found burnt should be extremely obvious right now. and you don't actually "need" another explanation.

It looked like he died to me. I don't think he was drugged so did Ronove use some sort of "martial arts spy move" where he squeezes your neck and you fall unconscious?

If Ronove is Genji, and 'snaps his fingers' so 'Genji falls and is dead as if asleep', it can only mean that Genji decided to go asleep himself, but does not necessitate Genji to kill himself or that Genji actually be asleep in the study - the magic scene has to match how it looked in the end but can float around the bush as much as needed to fulfill other purposes of the narrative.

You won't argue that the subsequent scene with murdering Rosa actually did involve her dying over and over and over by increasingly bizarre and childish means?

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"The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes."
— Paul K. Feyerabend, "Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge"

Ah, I should probably elaborate on this. Supposing the body belongs to Kinzo, then you can enumerate all of the motives we have available and determine that they don't actually make sense given the situation. On the other hand, if the body belongs to Kanon, you can make the theory that it was burned to deliberately give the impression that his corpse was missing, thereby making him a prime suspect for the murders.Something like this has already happened before in EP2.

Sorry, but I was looking at the red text.

They definitely would not mistake any different person for Kanon!
* (This is referring to Kanon's appearance in Episode 2.)

I'm pretty sure that proves it wrong. And doesn't this prove Shkanon wrong, too? They can't mistake Shannon for Kanon, after all!

If these two aren't important in some way after all that buildup, and Ep7 is just Shkanon love-love time again, I'm going to fly over to Japan and smack Ryukishi one.

Oh, heck, yes. Especially with George. To me that whole conversation between Shannon and George in EP6 was a bit too dark to not indicate that something might be "off" with him. And if Shkanon wasn't the "big obvious hint" in EP6, it was definitely at least Shannontrice (Oh look! I'm having a conversation with Battler about the type of girl he likes, and I'm pretty clearly not Jessica!). That has a lot of potential to implicate George as some sort of culprit or accomplice. (I agree about Rudolf, too, but I'm trying to pull things more out of EP6 right now for obvious reasons .)

I have to admit, though, my optimism that the ending's going to be anything other than Shkanon is kind of draining down the sink right now . Shkanon fits a lot of things pretty well, and I'm not going to be silly about it.